Author: Percival Graham RennickPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266953081
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Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Excerpt from Courts and Lawyers in Northern and Western Illinois During the year 1813, General Howard decided to attack the Indian villages in the region of Peoria Lake and sent in advance a company of soldiers to build a fort and a Stockade. This fort was built on land which had been included in the village recently destroyed and at a point where the present Liberty Street in Peoria reaches the river. It was called Fort Clark in honor of Lt. William Clark who had been appointed Governor of the Missouri Territory to succeed General Howard. He will be remembered as a brother of George Rogers Clark as well as for his famous expeditions. Six years later, in April, 1819, seven Americans from the settlements south of the Illinois River arrived at Fort Clark and founded the village which became Peoria. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
